Run daily team stand-ups with Slackbot

Slackbot works from your workspace's messages and files, so an owner or admin decides who gets it.

1. 1In Slack on your desktop, open Admin from the sidebar, then Workspace settings.
2. 2Go to Roles & permissions > Feature access > AI.
3. 3Next to Slackbot, click Edit, choose Everyone and click Save.

You should see Slackbot at the top of the sidebar, for everyone in the workspace.

On Enterprise plans, this setting sits under Tools & settings > Organization settings.

A quick recap shows what Slackbot can see and how to word requests before you automate anything.

1. 1Click Slackbot at the top of your sidebar.
2. 2Paste the prompt below, put in your channel name, and send it.
3. 3Ask a follow-up, such as "Which of these decisions still has no owner?"

Summarize #[CHANNEL] from the last 2 weeks. List the decisions made, the open questions and who owns each next step. Keep it under 150 words.

You should see a short recap of the channel, split into decisions, open questions and owners.

On Business+, the 15 weekly messages reset at midnight on Monday, in your own time zone.

A scheduled message asks the same 3 questions every morning, so nobody has to remember to start the stand-up.

1. 1In the sidebar, open Agents & tools, click Templates under Workflows and pick Send a scheduled message.
2. 2Click the first pencil icon. Set a start date and time, pick how often it runs, and click Save.
3. 3Click the second pencil icon and choose your stand-up channel. Paste the message below into Add a message, then click Save.
4. 4Click Finish Up, name the workflow, click Next, then Publish.

Good morning. Reply in this thread with 3 short lines:
1. What you finished yesterday
2. What you're working on today
3. Anything blocking you, or "none"

You should see the workflow marked as published, and the first message in your channel at the time you set.

A Slackbot task reads the stand-up thread on a schedule and sends you one tidy summary.

1. 1Open Slackbot and click the Tasks tab. If you don't see it, check More.
2. 2Click Add task, then Create with Slackbot.
3. 3Paste the request below, with your channel, time and end date.
4. 4Read the draft Slackbot writes, ask for changes if needed, then click Create task.

Every weekday at [11 a.m.], read the replies to today's stand-up message in #[CHANNEL]. Send me a summary in 3 parts: what each person finished, what they're doing today, and every blocker with its owner. Stop on [END DATE].

You should see your new task in the Tasks tab, with its schedule.

To change or stop the task, hover over it in Tasks and pick Edit or Pause. You can also ask Slackbot to do it.

Once Jira is connected, Slackbot can file each blocker where your team already tracks its work.

1. 1If Jira isn't in your workspace yet, open Agents & tools > Apps, search for it, click Add and then Add to Slack.
2. 2Open Slackbot, click Apps and click Connect next to Jira. Sign in when asked.
3. 3Select Jira under Apps and set its tools to Needs approval, so nothing gets filed without your OK.
4. 4When today's summary arrives, paste the prompt below into Slackbot.

Create a Jira ticket in project [PROJECT KEY] for each blocker in today's stand-up summary. Use the blocker as the title, and add the owner's name and today's date.

You should see a ticket for each blocker, waiting for you to approve it.

A skill holds your stand-up steps, so other teams can reuse them instead of building them again.

1. 1In Slackbot, open the Skills tab, click Add skill and pick Create a skill.
2. 2Paste the description below. It names Jira, so the skill knows which app to use.
3. 3Click Create skill, then open it and read the steps Slackbot wrote.
4. 4Hover over the skill, choose Share skill, pick a channel or people and click Share.

Run our team stand-up review. Read today's replies to the stand-up message in a channel I name. Summarize what each person finished, what they're doing today and every blocker with its owner. Then offer to create a Jira ticket for each blocker.

You should see the skill in your Skills tab, and a share message in the channel you picked.